17 April 2021
In one of the previous lessons I started talking about quartal harmony, that is a harmony based on intervals of fourth instead of thirds (as it […]
20 September 2020
The Diminished Scale If you are trying to move further the pentatonic and diatonic scales and experimenting with “other sounds”, the diminished scale will give you […]
19 September 2020
7(b9) & 7(#9) Arpeggios After talking about Dominant chords and 9 chords, let’s see how we can spice things up a little bit by using altered […]
16 September 2020
Modal Chords If I go back and think about the first years of my guitar studies, I have to admit that I found studying chords boring. […]
16 September 2020
Triads Triads are the building blocks of the tonal system of the Major and minor scales. The name “triad” tells us right away that they’re made of […]
15 September 2020
“Modal” Pentatonics Is It a Scale or an Arpeggio? Let’s say you are playing the notes A-C-D-E-G, I’m pretty sure you’d say without a doubt that […]
12 September 2020
Suspended Triads … Being Suspended … While studying a new song or a new harmonic progression, at some point you could have come across sus2 or […]
12 September 2020
What Is Quartal Harmony? When we talk about triads we usually refer to chords made by a fundamental note (or root), its third and its fifth. […]